St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-08
RED SHIRT IN BATTLE.
The Indian Chief Spins 4 Yarn t
the London Reporters.

The Indian Chief Spins 4 Yarn to
the London Reporters.
st. James Budget
EYES," continued Red Shirt, II will
tell you of Il great fight of the Sioux ma
ton with the Pawnees, who were always
bad Indians. They had met our people
on the hunt and killed them; they had
attacked our villages and carried away
our squaws and children, and their
young braves came like SerpentS in the
grass and stole away our horses. The
Sioux nation offered to make a treaty of
peace with the Pawnees, but the bad In
dians refused, and the grand council of
the Sioux sat down to discuss how we
should punish these bad people, and
every chief there spoke for going on the
war-path. Then we made ready to fight.
1t is fifteen years ago, and was young
chief then: but my father, who was
great chief, was on the war path, and
was eager to prove myself a warrior in
his eyes. Ic0llected my young men and
we set out, altogether LOO strong. under
sixteen big chiefs. The most expert
enced warriors were sent on two days
MARCH in advance to scout. and scouts
were thrown out on every side to guard
against surprise. For eight days our
braves marched against the enemy, and
then some spies came back and told us
that they had found tine Pawnee village.
Many of the Pawnee braves were OH
big hunt, but nearly all the remainder
of the tribe were at the village. We
gathered aroand the camp without be-
ing discovered, and the great chiefs told
the young men how the battle was to he
fought.
mot till the signal was given for at
ia c.l did the PawneeS find out their enc
mics were near. Some Of the PawneeS
were towards and ran before we gOtinto
the village, but the majority stayed to
fight for their WigwamS and to die for
them. They were surprised, and in one
great dash we cleared their lodges and
wigwamS. | was armed with long spear.
Nearly all our braves had spears and
bows and arrows, but many had guns,
too. Iran to a young chief who stood to
guard his lodge. He was brave and
good warrior, but he fell before my spear
and his scalp adorned my belt. Near
by four Pawnee braves stood in
bunch and made great fight against
the attacks of some of our young men. |
joined them, and with my long spear |
killed each one of those four braves, and
the scalpS l added to the one already ON
my belt. Then the fight was almost done.
The Pawnees left alive tried to get to
their fast horses, but our young men
were too quick for them. 1t was run
ming fight, and they were scalped al
most as the ran. / met three women
running for the horses. Two were
armed with knives and one with club,
but | killed all three. l did not take
their hair. A brave boasts not of killing
women, and wOman'S scalp adOrnS not
chiefs lodge. There was no hesita-
ton about killing their women and chill
venge is sweet to the red man. All,
however, were not killed, for we took
thirty-siX SquawS prisoners and carried
them back to the Sioux camp, where we
were hailed with shouts of victory, for
we had brought back with us over 500
scalpS to show that these bad Indians
had been punished. Besides, we had
all their horses and stores and trophies
to make glad the hearts of our sQuawS
"That fight took place in the Southern
country of the Big Beaver; but the
white man holds that land now, and the
Indian has gone nearer the setting sun.
Another grand council was held on our
return, when we agreed to send the
thirty-siX prisoners back to their tribe
for we felt some pity for them then
mounted on our best horses and loaded
with presents, and the message we sent
a treaty with them, they would not
listen to our words, and they continued
to attack our people and steal our
horses. Now we had killed all we could
find except the women, and those we
sent back to tell them how we punished
hap Indians who interfere with the
Sioux nation"